Princess Mathilde of Waldeck and Pyrmont | |
Full Name: | German: Caroline Friederike Mathilde |
Duchess Eugen of Württemberg | |
House: | House of Waldeck-Pyrmont (by birth) House of Württemberg (by marriage) |
Spouse: | Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1788–1857) |
Issue: | Marie, Landgravine of Hesse-Philippsthal Duke Eugen Duke Alexander |
Birth Date: | 10 April 1801 |
Birth Place: | Rhoden, Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont |
Death Place: | Karlsruhe, Silesia |
Father: | George I, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont |
Mother: | Princess Augusta of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen |
Princess Mathilde of Waldeck and Pyrmont (German: Mathilde Prinzessin zu Waldeck und Pyrmont; 10 April 1801 – 13 April 1825) was a member of the House of Waldeck and Pyrmont and a Princess of Waldeck and Pyrmont and a member of the House of Württemberg and a Duchess of Württemberg through her marriage to Duke Eugen of Württemberg.
Mathilde was born in Rhoden, Principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont, the fourth daughter and tenth child of George I, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont and his wife Princess Augusta of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen.
On 20 April 1817, in Arolsen, she married Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1788–1857, son of Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1758–1822) and Princess Luise of Stolberg-Gedern (1764–1828), first cousin of the better known Countess of Albany).They had three children:
Mathilde died while giving birth to her third child. In 1827, Eugene remarried to Princess Helene of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, with whom he had four children.